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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1917
Page
17
A nurse argues most men are average better than women, noting the harsher public judgment on male intoxication versus female. A Boston mother contrasts family values, while rail and spinster letters discuss marriage, morals, and protection for good women. Readers seek guidance on marriage and finances.
The article notes fur trims on many bags and hats with monkey fur accents. Satin is favored, metal embroidered veils are worn, green gains popularity, and cream net waists return. The tricorne hat remains popular while the chemise frock holds sway. Shaggy furs and plaid touches appear in children's serge dresses.
A Sunday Post recipe feature shares a frost lemon pie filling step by step using lemon juice sugar egg yolks cornstarch water and meringue. It also presents a molasses shortening dough mix with Crisco lard ginger soda salt and flour to roll thin and bake as a cheap child friendly option.
In a chatty column, Dorothy outlines a plan to travel South with Clara while husbands stay behind. The scene includes playful schemes, lunch at Clara’s, and a stylish white taffeta hat with black straw trim and silk rose accents.
A reader asks to publish the year William A. Sunday was ordained. The article states he was ordained at Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church Chicago on April 14 1908 with Wilbur Chapman preaching the sermon and Alexander Patterson delivering the charge to the candidate.
Plans for Mildred Champagne to manage a growing chain of moving picture and vaudeville houses across New England. The Boston Scenic Temple at Berkley Street and Warren Avenue will be the flagship. She intends operatic concerts, a dramatic school, a writers’ program, and personal audience contact. Also notes Union of Charlestown meeting and charity event at St. Cecilia’s Back Bay.
The Scenic Temple is renamed the Mildregé Champagne Theatre and other New England houses follow. Miss Champagne, Radcliffe alumna and world traveler, is a linguist and musician who has written songs, comedies, and four plays. She aims to run high class, refined theatres with personally selected films and a superior audience experience.
Members of the Holy Name Society at St. Peter's Church Meeting House Hill will receive holy communion at the 7:30 mass in the upper church on Sunday January 21. President D Henry McLaughlin expects full attendance.
In Indianapolis on January 18 the public morals committee reported a state-wide prohibition bill favorably to the lower house after a few amendments were concurred in. One amendment limits an individual's personal stock to one gallon of whiskey and 12 quarts of beer.
Representative Greene of Massachusetts issued a formal call to Republican members and members elect for a conference next Wednesday night. The meeting will consider Gardner's proposal for a constructive legislative program and discuss a potential Republican candidate for speaker of the next House.
William J. Bryan urged Ohio lawmakers in a joint session to extend presidential suffrage to women. He claimed women helped elect President Wilson, challenging Democrats to support woman suffrage in the session.
Clergy from Universalist and Episcopal churches preach daily noonday and evening sermons. Notable addresses include Bishop H St George Tucker of Kyoto, Japan, at Cathedral School service and 11 o'clock sermon, plus other ministers from Clinton Roxbury New Haven and Connecticut dioceses. Miss Margaret Slattery to address young women on January 25.
Police and fire departments will investigate a three alarm blaze at Fr L Horton Manufacturing Company at 32 Whittier Street Roxbury. The fire caused about $18000 in losses and followed a similar incident in the same building about a week earlier. Chief McDonough ordered the inquiry after arriving on the third alarm.
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